Sheila McWattie Arts The Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage – call for performers at Brighton Pride Singer songwriter Nicky Mitchell, performance poet, stand up and MC Annabel Pribelszki and the Charity Cabaret team will be hosting the Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage at this year’s Brighton Pride Festival in Preston Park. The Sheila McWattie Women’s Performance Stage will showcase the br By Besi • 2 min read
International News First LGBTQ Leadership Summit to be held in Israel this summer LGBTQ leaders from around the world are being invited to join their peers at the 40 Years of Pride conference in Tel Aviv from, June 9-11, 2015. The conference is organised by The Aguda, the National Israeli LGBT group which serves as a human rights organisation working to improve the lives of LGBT By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts Bourne Free – the 11th edition Bourne Free returns in 2015 for its 11th annual pride event in Bournemouth. This year you can expect more of the same with great entertainment lined up for the three-day celebration starting on Friday, July 10. It all kicks off with the Family Fun Night on the Friday with a Broadway themed evening. By Besi • 2 min read
Heather Small Community News Heather Small to headline Bristol Pride in July Bristol Pride have announced the full lineup for this year’s festival which will culminate in an outdoor community arts and music festival in Castle Park. Bristol Pride will take place on Saturday, July 11. Entry to Pride Day is by a £3 donation entry and will feature a local food and market zone, o By Besi • 4 min read
In The South National Lottery grant helps stage Exeter Pride Pride season kicks off on Saturday, May 16 with the seventh annual Exeter Pride. Exeter Pride, the biggest free LGBT celebration in the country goes ahead this weekend thanks to a National Lottery Awards for All grant of more than £4,000. The event will begin this Saturday (May 16) at 12 noon with a By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Portsmouth Pride awarded £10,000 by Big Lottery Fund Portsmouth Pride has been awarded £10,000 by the Big Lottery Fund, which will support the Pride Variety Show on Southsea Common, and street parade in Commercial Road, on Saturday, June 20. “This is fantastic news,” said Portsmouth Pride Chair, David Lee-Bastable. “The costs of putting on a safe even By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Manchester set for inaugural LGBT+ Sports Festival Manchester City Council funds new sporting event for LGBT people. Registration is now open for ‘Sports May’, Manchester’s brand new summer sports and activity festival for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans + community’. The festival will run throughout May and is being supported and funded by Man By Besi • 3 min read
LGBTQ+ News Suited and booted with Newcastle Pride The North East’s leading LGBT charity is hoping to raise “money, money, money” at its annual Black Tie Ball. THE popular event on Saturday June 20, will feature a live performance by top tribute band Abba Girlz, as well as a three course meal created by 1879 Events Management. Guests at the glamorou By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News The winner of London Pride’s Got Talent to be chosen at Floridita Floridita on Wardour Street in Soho will play host on Tuesday, May 5 to a range of emerging LGBT+ talent hoping to star on the Pride in London stage in Trafalgar Square on June 27. Fifteen finalists who have been whittled down from hundreds of applications will battle it out to appear on the Pride i By Besi • 2 min read
Union J Arts Manchester Pride add to their ‘Big Weekend’ lineup of stars DJ Fresh, Andy Butler (Hercules and Love Affair) and Union J will all join the multi-million selling, multi-platinum, band Texas as part of the line up for the charity’s Big Weekend event that will take place over the August bank holiday weekend. DJ Fresh, aka English record producer and DJ Daniel S By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Access to be upgraded again at Brighton Pride 2015 After the success of the award-winning accessibility matters initiative at Pride in 2014, access to this years event will be even easier in 2015. Organisers have moved this years Access Tent and Access Gate at the Pride Festival site to the south end of Preston Park making it easier for those with d By Besi • 2 min read
Community News 100 Days and counting to the biggest Brighton Pride25 celebration With less than 100 days to go, the countdown to Brighton Pride 2015 is well underway as Pride organisers prepare to deliver the biggest Pride celebrations the city has ever seen. This year promises a citywide celebration as our diverse and spectacular communities come together to celebrate the 25th By Besi • 1 min read
